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He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.
Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
Breed up a crow and he'll pick out your eyes.
Breed up a crow and he'll pick out your eyes.
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in read more
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
